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wow… the united states just turned 225 today. can you believe it? it seems like it was just yesterday when i was born… two years after the country celebrated america’s bicentennial. i love the fourth of july. it’s a time to reflect on what a great country we live in and it makes me proud to be an american. it’s a time to reflect on those that fought and died to give us our freedom, and those who have constantly fought to maintain it. we live in a great country, and though we don’t get a whole lot of respect in the international scheme of things… it doesn’t matter. we’ve come this far…

as i sit here waiting for the evening to draw to a close, i’d like to take moment and reflect on my life. sometimes we take things for granted. i know i’m guilty of that. but i wanted to take the time to say: my life is pretty damn good. i have a wonderful girlfriend that loves me. i have a great family that loves me. i get along with my brother/roommate. it’s pretty nice. so.. to everyone in my life… whether they read this or not… thank you. thank you for being in my life. thank you for brightening my life.

i don’t think my brother realizes just how lucky he is sometimes. being the immature dumbass that he can tend to be, he doesn’t think with his head a lot. i’m not going to pretend like i’m perfect by any means. i’ve got my faults. hell, i just bought alcohol tonight that i’m sure him and his friends will probably help themselves to. anyways, his friends were being loud. and i don’t mean a loud “loud”, i mean a LOUD loud. they were coming in and out of the house, and lo and behold … someone called the cops. now, before you freak out, it was an off-duty richmond county officer. but still. my brother is nineteen. a dumbass to boot. and the cops were knocking at the door because of complaints from neighbors. lucky for my brother, the guys was off-duty. otherwise, i’d be escorting him to to the police station. now, my brother didn’t learn from this. after he managed to get the cop to go away, he ended up on the phone with some friends and asked them to come over. not only were my brother and his friends being too loud… he wanted more to join the fray. god, i swear my brother needs some common sense sometimes. anyway, i got pissed at my brother after he “warned” me that others were coming over. i told him: “haven’t you learned anything from this you dumb punk? a cop came to our door because you were being too loud. you’re lucky he was off-duty, otherwise you’d be locked up right now for being drunk underage.” he shrugged at me. i told him that he wouldn’t be so lucky the next time. he won’t be.

kay, so i left without saying g’bye to you folks. my bad. i just spent the weekend in virginia with my girlfriend kim. we were up there attending my friend heather’s wedding. (congrats heather and donald!!) the whole weekend went pretty well and i even dressed up … in a tux even! maybe i’ll have pics available soon. gotta get with kim aboot developing this roll of pics from the trip. anyway, i’s be back and i hope to update the site a lil’ bit over the course of the week. see ya next update!

it’s 12:21am. my girlfriend is still out of town and i really miss her a lot. i haven’t really been apart from her all that much, and i guess it’s not a feeling i really enjoy having. i feel kinda empty without her. i know, i know… it’s all so sappy… anyways, i’m having a hard time getting to sleep.

you know, for having stayed up last til 3am, i feel alright. i’m a goofball, i know. why were you up til 3, you ask? well… easy, really. i wasn’t all that tired. i was up late trying to figure how to incorporate templates files into an html document that’s being hosted on a unix server running apache 1.3.6. ya see, i’ve got some projects going on like the phoenix and sga websites that I really need to update and i want to use server-side includes in the project to simplify the whole design of these projects. i dropped an email to the school webmaster to hopefully get includes turned on… so we’ll see.

sorry for the lack of updates this past weekend. i’ll try to make it up to ya!

ever wake up and have your vision so blurred you can barely see two feet in front of you. i swear.. the past couple of mornings it has seemed like that for me… my eyes must be sealed shut by sleep or something. i guess it’s not really a big deal. i see fine after i actually wake my sorry ass up in the morning. maybe it’s because i always wake up to the tv being so freaking loud that it disorients me? who the hell knows. anyways… development on my site is going pretty well i plan on pointing my domain here within the next couple of hours! yay me!